This song has helped me a lot in going through tough times. Discovered them through Kodama and then started listening to their older stuff. I still listen to the album Kodama a lot, idk I feel like I have a deep attachment to it; I get some kind of emotional catharsis

Beautiful. And your outspoken clarity on personal loss is really great. Thnx. Cheers🌿

Everything Neige does and has done is amazing.

Damn, was just thinking recently when you were gonna do more Alcest. Thanks for the content

Alcest is cool, maybe a full album review would be great. Altough started as black metal (not traditional but a more melancholic and atmospheric take on black metal) it then changed to what people call shoegaze.

Nice review. Also, you don't stop the music all the time and that's a good thing. Many youtubers stop music a lot and that bothers

Love Alcest but never would've put them in the "songs to cry to" category. Mostly I just think they make some of the most beautiful music out there, and the fact that they're doing that in the blackgaze genre is incredibly impressive. This is definitely one of their simpler and more purely emotive tracks though.

Yes another alcest reaction!!

Love Alcest, has become one of my favorite bands recently. Shame that the chosen song is more a simpler/shorter one, but it's still great!

As someone who worships Alcest I won't complain about this but it should've been Ecailles de Lune Pt.2, I'll keep repeating this and die on this hill if necessary

Ooh someone needs to recommend 'Pictures Of You' by The Cure for this week's theme.

For me thing song has always been a nostalgic view at my own childhood. No idea what the song is actually about but it makes me think back to the days when I'd just run around nature with my friends.

Alcest drumming really is great.

Might I suggest Pray Your Gods by Fates Warning. Underrated for sure

Mogwai - “Travel is Dangerous” is a sad piece. Especially lyric-wise. And it reminds me of this song.

Alcest is a really cool band. I always find Neige has a way of writing really simple yet incredibly catching and compelling guitar melodies. Hope you check out more of them in the future!! my favorite by them personally is Eclosion. Also, I really appreciate the timestamps for the different sections of the video

Thanks for reviewing. This whole album is spectacular, but my favorites are Faiseurs De Mondes and Summer’s Glory

I would definitely recommend their song Sapphire, different approach than this one, builds and builds!

It should have been Écailles de lune Pt.2 😭

Awesome! I can't get enough of this band. It's been a little bit since their last release, hoping for something new from them soon. All of their albums are very exceptional, which is something I can't say about the majority of artists - it's hard to be consistent while incorporating the amount of variety that they do. If I had to pick one album though, it would have to be Les Voyages de l'Âme, where this song happens to serve as the introduction. There's something special about that album I can't quite put my finger on. actually if I had to guess, it's just how the guitars sound/were written as well as the tone of the drums!

You should check out the full version, this version is missing the intro.

Was half expecting to see the emo character resurfacing when you told us this weeks theme, not gonna lie. Anyway, your reaction was kind of spartan and that suits the song in a way. There's this one line on the show The Wire, "there's no shame in holding on to grief as long as you make room for other things too", which I'd say fits this one perfectly. Alcest more or less inhabit the same parts of the metal universe as bands like Agalloch, that sort of shoegazy and more introspective black metal inspired subgenre that Ulver more or less invented by chance on their first album. And I'd say this kind of melancholy with a drive is also sort of prevalent both on bands like Katatonia or Rapture ( a band that has just about the most energetic take on melancholy I have ever heard), but also on the best of doom; at its best, the best of the doom bands straddle similar fine lines between wallowing and reacting to that wallowing. Antithesis of Light by Evoken is a great example of that and a song (and album) that sound exactly like the title, the aural description of a black hole. But it always sounds like the contrast between sinking and resisting to that sinking. One of the few bands who is nominally "funeral" doom and as such conotated with the slowest of the slow withing the genre, but who also uses blast beats, without it speeding up the music none.

Never knew Joaquin Phoenix did reaction videos. But well done

Reminds me Opeth or Porcupine Tree. Great song.

a lovely contemplative track. could totally see this being music to listen to when you're sad. but, i'm crossing my emo heart that something this week will have me sobbing, curled up on my floor, and un-sadly, this isn't it

For your moody week you could listen to Partus from Stoa it is in latin it is quite short.

If this man doesn't have Harakiri For The Sky on this weeks theme I am going to riot.

I'm not French, but I think it's pronounced something like aw-truh temp.